TY - GEN
T1 - Looking for the image of modernization
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development, IDGD 2009. Held as Part of HCI International 2009
AU - Wong, Ju Joan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Beginning in the 1980s, Taiwan's most vigorous global economic activity trade department faced several difficult issues in succession. Reversing this unfavorable situation by improving the MIT product image in international markets was seen as the solution to these issues. This paper analyzes the cultural contents of those economic and trade policies, and reveals how Taiwan, a marginal state forced by the wave of globalization, constructed a national identity by improving the product image of MIT. Furthermore, this process demonstrates Taiwan's desire to be a 'modern' nation among the developing countries. Based on the above, this paper argues that 'Taiwan's modern design movement' was promoted by MIT discourses through a succession of economic and trade policies. Besides declaring an aesthetic form, this movement also was one of nationalism. However, whether modern design or nationalism movement, both are transcended by the reasonable manipulation of capitalism, and become ideological bubbles.
AB - Beginning in the 1980s, Taiwan's most vigorous global economic activity trade department faced several difficult issues in succession. Reversing this unfavorable situation by improving the MIT product image in international markets was seen as the solution to these issues. This paper analyzes the cultural contents of those economic and trade policies, and reveals how Taiwan, a marginal state forced by the wave of globalization, constructed a national identity by improving the product image of MIT. Furthermore, this process demonstrates Taiwan's desire to be a 'modern' nation among the developing countries. Based on the above, this paper argues that 'Taiwan's modern design movement' was promoted by MIT discourses through a succession of economic and trade policies. Besides declaring an aesthetic form, this movement also was one of nationalism. However, whether modern design or nationalism movement, both are transcended by the reasonable manipulation of capitalism, and become ideological bubbles.
KW - Economic development
KW - Industrial design
KW - Made in Taiwan (MIT)
KW - Modernization
KW - National identity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=76649100419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_47
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:76649100419
SN - 3642027660
SN - 9783642027666
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 419
EP - 428
BT - Internationalization, Design and Global Development - Third International Conference, IDGD 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, Proceedings
Y2 - 19 July 2009 through 24 July 2009
ER -
